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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastor of the congregation there.An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the twenty-second, twenty-third, twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, and twenty-sixth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty-seven lectures, delivered at Magnus near London Bridge. By Joseph Caryl, preacher of the Word, and pastour of the congregation there.
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, Whereas Job saith, when I am tried I shall come forth as gold.
Secondly, Whereas Job saith, when I am tryed I shall come forth as gold.
Observe.
A godly man is no looser by being tried, yea he gains by it.
A godly man is no looser by being tryed, yea he gaines by it.
He who before was reputed but as dross, and had much dross in him, comes out of the trial as gold, and loseth nothing of his weight, worth, or beauty by being tried, he only loseth (a good loss) his dross and the rubbish of his corruptions. Grace is not only grace still, but more gracious even glorious after trial. Some speak of grace as if it were but dross, consumable in the fire; as if every temptation and trial endangered it to an utter consumption, or as if, like lead, it would quite evaporate, and spend to nothing in the fire. They stick not to affirm, that a true believer may lose all his graces, and how much soever enriched before by the Spirit, yet prove a bankrupt in spirituals. Job was Confidet that his gold would hold the trial, both of the hottest afflictions, and of the strictest examinations. He had been tried long in the furnace of affliction heated seven times more then ordinary, and yet held his integrity, and though he should come to trial at the Judgement-seat of God, which is more then seventy-times seven times stricter then the Judgement-seat of man (according to truth) can be, yet he nothing doubted, that nothing (as to the general bent of his heart and frame of life) should be found or appear but integrity still. That is but drossy grace, natural grace, if not hypocritical grace, or a counterfeit only of grace, which aides not in the day of trial. They who loose the grace which they have showed, had only a show of grace. Hypocrites shall oe all at their trial, their paint, their varnish will not endure the fire, either of a lasting affliction, or of that last examination;